House debates gun control legislation

The US House of Representatives has begun to debate two bills that would, respectively, expand firearm background checks, and extend the time-frame for conducting background checks on gun purchases, the Washington Examiner reports. Both bills were passed by Democrats in 2019 but the Republican-led Senate discarded them at the time.

Top Private Schools in Tampa Planning To Reopen With Precautions

In 2019, there were 15 top private schools in Tampa bay but in 2021 only two of them topped this ranking once again across the state. According to the rankings of Niche.com, Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg and Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa are the schools that continued to be among the best top 15 schools in this state.

How Schools Are Surveyed

This site has analyzed the top private school based on ACT/SAT scores of each school, enrolment in college, the grade of diversity and culture, and surveys on the overall experience of the students and parents before releasing its annual reports. All the information collected by them has been received from the Department of Education of the US. Both of these schools have received the rating of ‘A+’ to become the top private schools in Tampa bay.

But due to the outspread of pandemic Coronavirus the studies at all the schools private as well as public, have been disturbed for almost one year. Though the dates to restart schools has recently been postponed by public schools in Tampa but the administrators and teachers of some of the private schools in Tampa like Hillel Academy etc. have been preparing to reopen their school with precautions.

Best Schools in Tampa

Hillel Academy is one of the top private schools in Tampa which is going to open for students from Wednesday but the students and the staff will have to strictly follow the guidelines to save all of them from the infection of Covid-19. New measures to protect from Coronavirus will remain in place while reopening the school after a long shut-down.

According to Maritza Patet, a kindergarten teacher, teachers were busy in collecting supplies and getting ready supplies for students for the last few weeks. They were excited as the school was reopening on Wednesday. They were getting ready with all their works, journals, binders, reading and writing journals as well as to gather again.

A theme of Wizard of Oz was selected to greet the students as they will reach the school on Wednesday. They will be guided to reach their classrooms through a road completely made of yellow bricks.  This effort has been done by the staff and teachers of this private school in Tampa to keep the mind of students away from the radical changes occurred due to outspread of Covid-19.

It means the movements in the classrooms and the entire school will be something different than last many years due to strict enforcement of social distancing among its students, teachers, and staff. They will also have to wear masks. While on campus the temperature of everyone will be checked thrice a day, when someone enters the campus, at noon and before leaving the campus.

Bottom Line

Whenever positive cases of Coronavirus will be detected at the school or the number of positive cases in the community will increase then a 4-tier plan will be followed at Hillel Academy. According to the order of the Governor of Tampa, under this plan students will be allowed to learn from home, if required at any time during the school session.